Sunrise Panorama - V3

[Gannaingh]

This is the result, so far, of an experiment I've been playing with. The image is composed of 10 segments, each with different sun elevations and headings representing the sun rising over the same landscape from left to right. The whole idea turned out better than I anticipated it would. What do ya'll think?

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[Oshyan]

Cool idea, and really beautiful result!

- Oshyan

[nbk2]

Looks great 

[Gannaingh]

Thanks guys 

[Kadri]

Looks nice!

[Henry Blewer]

I really like the atmosphere's colors. Just a tad more light in the hills would be better maybe.

[inkydigit]

great idea and result!

[otakar]

Love it! Rays are TG also?

[Gannaingh]

Thanks everybody! Otakar, sadly the rays are photoshopped in, I tried getting them naturally in Terragen, but the render times went through the roof so I abandoned them. This next one has better lighting on the hills, especially the foreground. I want to add some clouds, but getting them to look good in all the different lighting situations is a bit challenging is going to require a fair amount of test renders.

[Seth]

nice atmo indeed and very good idea

[Henry Blewer]

The sun striking the tree tops looks much better.

[Gannaingh]

After a lot of fiddling I've finally found some clouds that look good through all ten segments of the image. I might have overdone the lense flare in photoshop a bit and will probably end up toning it down. I want to add some fog in the valley to capture more light in the scene since the bottom half is much darker than the sky, just to lessen the contrast some.

Edit: For some reason the image quality is a lot lower for the uploaded file than what I'm seeing in my picture viewer. Weird.

[Kadri]

Great image 

[inkydigit]

agree with Kadri, looks really good!

[TheBadger]

Hi,

Like your experimenting here! I tried something similar with an SLR camera and pano rig. Its quite difficult. I like the results your getting better

It could make things easier on you if you do not go for such a literal interpretation of the light. That is, maybe a little more fantasy on this one than (light) reality; Use a moon or something to lighten up the darks (or whatever) to get a smoother blend between stitches.
How many shots in the pano?

You may find this EXTREMELY useful: http://www.kolor.com/panorama-software-autopano-pro.html I know I do, its the best. Just in case you don't know about it, this software can smooth out those differences for you nearly automatically, nearly perfectly.